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Software Engineer – Neki Orchestration
Location
California
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$120K - $290K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer – Neki Orchestration
PlanetScale
• You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime. • You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures. • You will build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation. • You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python etc
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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